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• And the winner is… Aftersun
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• Nicole Kidman’s Daughters Make Their Red Carpet Debut at AFI Life Achievement Award Gala
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• Aftersun Ending Explained: Exploring The Meaning And What Happened To Calum

As an eleven-year-old, she did not know that would be the last dance she would have with her father. It seemed as if she could still feel the warmth of the last hug before leaving. She would have held him a little longer if she knew what the future had in store. Aftersun takes on that profound challenge with graceful imagery, technical precision, and fine-tuned performances from Mescal and Corio.

And the winner is… Aftersun

I was interested in an expression of some truth from my own relationship, and the love that I experienced. It had great freedom, expression, and community, but I also saw another side of that; people on drugs with desperate facial expressions. What at first was a place of liberation could become a place of inescapability. I feel like most people’s memories are based on images, which is why film is a great medium for works about memory. Many of the scenes with adult Sophie show her in a rave-type situation watching her father dance.

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She looked at the teenagers with awe as they made out and partied at night. This was a world she had not taken a close look at, and she developed the desire to grow up and become independent, just like the young adults she met. While Sophie tried to figure out the newness that came with growing up, Calum struggled with his own demons, which at times became too difficult to take control of. “Aftersun” begins with a Handycam video in which Sophie asks her father what he imagined her to be at the age of 11. It is established that the film is mostly from Sophie’s perspective, both as an eleven-year-old and as an adult.

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They were both on set and we see — as the camera pans back to Calum in the shot — at the end of the scene, Frankie would get up from the bed and leave the room with Paul together. They would remain outside the room together and we would reset. Paul had to shift from being in that internal space that allowed him to play that intense scene, back to playfully hanging out with Frankie. To some degree, that reflects what that character had to do in that moment, so it all played into itself. Indeed, Wells’ three short films and “Aftersun” all feature the same precise calibration of tone and internal meanings. Her characters struggle to express their frustrations in a world that boxes them in.

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The film is sparing in its details, but it implies that this trip was the last time she saw her father. Some of the groundwork for Aftersun was laid in Wells’s 2015 short film Tuesday (she has called this “a sequel of sorts, in a different place and time”). There’s more than a hint of the tactility of Lynne Ramsay’s early works, with short films such as Gasman (1997) and features such as Ratcatcher (1999) clearly serving as inspirations. Throughout the film, we never get to know what exactly Calum was suffering from, but with the bits and pieces shown and discussed, we form a rough idea about the cause of his suffering.

His childhood was not a pleasant one; we can sense that he was neglected. He expressed how, after leaving his hometown, he never felt like he belonged there anymore. Edinburgh was where he grew up, but he could not relate to the people or the place. He prefers living in London and hopes to rent a house there with his business partner, Keith. While he did seem unsure about his business venture, he found comfort in dreaming about having his life together and renting a flat right outside London where Sophie could have her own room and visit him time and again. Even though he was suffering financially, he always tried to conceal his troubles.

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Aftersun charts the exquisite, bittersweet journey of seeing a parent as their own person.

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Because much of the tone is upbeat, it isn’t the saddest movie ever but it doesn’t shy away from making its audience feel melancholy when it all ends. It was a huge investment of my time, and I didn’t always connect with people. The curse and gift of having a kid on set is that time is so limited, so there’s this strain on production to get through the material with the enforced breaks that come with working with a child actor.

Aftersun Ending Explained: Exploring The Meaning And What Happened To Calum

The distance between the father and the daughter is encapsulated in a rave party where adult Sophie catches glimpses of her father. She walks up to him, but she cannot see him in his entirety. She had a lot to say, indefinite reasons to be angry about, and the aching desire to hold onto her father a little longer. Sophie stood in the dark room, unable to grab hold of her father as she watched him fall.

Aftersun builds its tension by allowing the audience to slowly see more and more of Calum’s pain, until we watch him break down crying. He could have died due to some of his self-destructive behavior, or his mental health issues could have gotten so bad that he disappeared, never to be seen again. His fate isn’t confirmed, but this is a film about grief and loss, at least one aspect of it. So whatever has happened to Calum, the loving father from the vacation is gone forever. We then see Calum recording her as she boards a plane back to Edinburgh to be with her mother and return to her life.

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During their big balcony moment, Princess Charlotte enjoyed a giggle with her brother as they waved to the throngs of royal well-wishers lining the Mall. The youngster sweetly flashed a warm smile as she observed her brother making a series of cheeky faces. Princess Charlotte protectively held Prince Louis' hand as the sibling duo made their way into Westminster Abbey ahead of King Charles and Queen Camilla's spectacular coronation ceremony.

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The look of concern on the mother’s face, and the tone of the school day’s interactions, give a sense of some unspoken loss hanging over the girl. Each detail tugs at you until finally, after the girl has spent the afternoon alone in the dying light of her father’s apartment, her mother arrives to quietly take her home. “Aftersun” is one of those films that lingers long after you have watched it.

Gently poised from the perspective of an older Sophie we only vaguely see, the film is a memory piece. Sophie, teetering between childhood and young adulthood, is attracting the attention of older kids. But we gradually grasp that it’s not Sophie who’s sliding away from her dad.

You can just feel the weight of his absence so much that it seems like the movie makes a big declaration about his fate. As Philip Roth observed, getting people wrong — again and again — is a common human pastime. Best of all are the ellipses the film elegantly leaves, gradually drawing the viewer in with its woozy atmospherics and unspoken questions.